Wanikani very unforgiving for typos in japanese

[MysteryZA]

@Denkigaku

That is even more absurd. The test is if you know the kanji 宝 is read たから. the くじ is literally in the question, so it does not make sense to give a penalty because it is obvious it is a typo.

This was actually a feature they added and rolled back:

New Typo Protection Feature?

I just logged in to do my evening reviews, and I was greeted with something that I’m pretty sure is new? When a card asking for the reading of a vocabulary word with okurigana comes up, if I haven’t included the correct okurigana in my answer, it…gives me a screen shake and won’t let me submit my answer. [Screen Shot 2024-04-04 at 6.40.39 PM] When I’m moving through reviews, I try to do them pretty quickly. When I come upon a word I don’t know the reading for (and it’s a word that I know I do…

The logic in this comment would’ve solved that issue though so not sure why they didn’t just do that

@d-hermit

I probably would have used a different logic personally though: if kanji reading is correct - check okurigana and warn, if kanji reading is incorrect - fail item.